Comments on: Zack Snyder Says He Saved WATCHMEN From The Terry Gilliams of the Worldhttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/03/zack-snyder-says-he-saved-watchmen-from-the-terry-gilliams-of-the-world/
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:28:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Eduardo Melohttp://www.nerdist.com/2014/03/zack-snyder-says-he-saved-watchmen-from-the-terry-gilliams-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-178827
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:37:17 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178827Who saves us from the savior?
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Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:04:29 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178811FUCK NO!!!! ZACKS FILM WAS AMAZING!!!!
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Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:34:46 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178798I’m a huge fan of the comic and the film. I have the original theatrical cut, as well as the animated version of the black freighter comic and the director’s cut which includes the Bernie subplot, the Black Freighter story intercut into it, plus a number of deleted scenes from the theatrical. It’s pretty long, about 3.5 hours, but it’s well worth the watch. It’s one of my favourite movies and Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earle Haley both give amazing performances.
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Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:57:20 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178722Snyder’s Watchmen was about as close to perfect an adaptation as you could get. Sure, as some commenters before me are venting, the irritable purists didn’t like Snyder’s “changes” but the only really significant change he made (having Dr Manhattan become the threat the world rallies against, rather than the genetic squid monster) is not only far more concise, makes more sense, is in keeping with the source material and Dr Manhattan’s own story but it’s, dare I say it, *whisper* maybe even better than Moore’s version.

It makes more sense any road.

Anyway, before I get raked over the coals for saying that, I do think Snyder’s comments are a bit dickish. That being said, as much as I love Terry Gilliam and as much as I would be intrigued to have seen his take on Watchmen, it would have been batshit crazy and probably not in a good way.

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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:55:35 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178659From a visually, Zack Snyder’s was almost perfect. The Soundtrack to it was amazing, it is hard to imagine on what can be improved besides including what would be cut for time reasons. This film was very true to the graphic novel compared to some other film adaptations of other books, comics, or graphic novels. Just look at Wanted, or V for Vendetta, those were completely altered, and not for better.
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:05:50 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178645Blah, I’m not interested in this being a feud. Zack Snyder is good at every part of filmmaking except the parts which require having a creative thought, and Terry Gilliam is notoriously only good at those parts. If I have to pick between watching Brazil and a Romero remake with all the political commentary vacuumed out, I think I’ll just turn off the TV.
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Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:00:16 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=119670#comment-178642Snyder’s “adaptation” was a slap in the face. I don’t know what the reasoning behind his “creative changes” were, but it did nothing to add to the experience that is Watchmen. Alan Moore was right in saying his works could not be adapted into film. And yes, that’s most works of literature, but Snyder didn’t even bother staying loyal to the source material. He’s bitching about the changes made in Gilliam’s run because it’s a better approach than his (as far as creative tweaks go). The stench of hypocrisy coming off Snyder makes it difficult to acknowledge him as a “filmmaker” let alone critic. And mind you, this isn’t even coming from a fanboy; I read Watchmen a few months before the movie. I watched the movie when it was released on video. It just irks me to hear Snyder criticize someone who did the same thing he did, but better. “I made Watchmen for myself” is something a douchebag would say. How can he speak for the fans when the fans despise his own take on the Watchmen universe?
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